Tag: Winter 1998-99

A high school teacher at Leon High School in Tallahassee is contending that Low Life hit her below the belt.

A provision signed into law last summer could give California college students a better understanding of how their school handles criminal incidents and might result in greater access to details about those crimes.

An investigative article outlining one student-athlete's smooth athletic college career, despite stormy weather in the form of bad grades, has landed The Kansas City Star and the University of Arizona in a Los Angeles federal court.

Boston University's lawsuit against companies that sell term papers over the Internet was thrown out by a federal judge in December. But university officials say they will refile the case in state court.

A trial court's ruling that prevented a commercial newspaper from printing the names of juveniles who testified during an open court proceeding was an "unlawful prior restraint on the press," determined the state's highest court in November.

Unauthorized advertising does not have a home in the folds of Golden State newspapers anymore.

The editor of an alternative high school newspaper was given permission to distribute his publication on campus following a well-publicized dispute with school officials in which approximately 500 papers were confiscated.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Oct. 5 to hear the appeal of a North Carolina high school drama teacher who was involuntarily transferred from her job after community members complained about a play performed by her advanced acting class.

Staff members of a Missouri high school newspaper filed a First Amendment suit against their school in October after school officials removed their newspaper adviser.